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as in to flow
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
looking for a college course that he could just glide through
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as in to hover
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air
water striders gliding along the surface of the brook
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Recent Examples of glide
Mars is spending the final days of the month gliding past the famous Pleiades star cluster (also known as the Seven Sisters) and this celestial encounter will not be this easy to see again for years.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
Flapping flight dominates the airborne movements of flying insects, but birds can also glide and soar.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Watching Lieberson glide effortlessly among Manhattan’s elite, Clive, rising from general counsel to vice president and general manager, could see his future self.
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Michael Riedel,
Vanity Fair,
22 June 2026
In addition to their modern colorful hardshells, the bags are also made with smooth wheels that glide quietly over different surfaces, according to impressed Amazon shoppers.
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Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
Flapping flight dominates the airborne movements of flying insects, but birds can also glide and soar.
—
Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Watching Lieberson glide effortlessly among Manhattan’s elite, Clive, rising from general counsel to vice president and general manager, could see his future self.
—
Michael Riedel,
Vanity Fair,
22 June 2026
In addition to their modern colorful hardshells, the bags are also made with smooth wheels that glide quietly over different surfaces, according to impressed Amazon shoppers.
—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glide
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Rainfall — as little as a tenth of an inch, according to the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, or ALCOSAN — can cause an overflow of stormwater and raw sewage to flow into the rivers.
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Through the morning, a river of mourners dressed in black flowed from the Grand Mosalla.
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Those who rely on custom mobility devices still have to fly commercial or find another way to get to the games, and risk damage to their wheelchairs in the process.
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Last year, Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets (Sunny and Gizmo) were about a month older during the fireworks show and had already grown enough feathers to fly away from the nest.
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Dark clouds hovered around the stadium just before kickoff, threatening to delay the start of the game, but Mother Nature apparently is a soccer fan, because the storm veered away.
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Temperatures in the beach cities pleasantly hovered in the 70s, a stark contrast to East Coast communities broiling in a heat wave.
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Yamal was a thorn in Saudi Arabia’s side, drifting infield to unleash shots from distance but also peppering the penalty area with wicked deliveries from the right flank.
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When those models drift or their assumptions fail, errors can scale rapidly.
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Meanwhile, her fringe was combed off to one side of her forehead above a classic, sparkly smoky eye and winged liner.
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Her direction here wisely emphasizes the actors, and possibly overdoes it with the mirrors — lotta symbolically reflective surfaces and isolating frames within frames — but there’s never the sensation that the person behind the camera is winging it.
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The usual carousel of famous people making the podcast rounds — Kamala Harris on Call Her Daddy, Tyrese on Joe Budden, the endless stream of tiny heads floating in front of screenshots of articles — is interrupted by something startlingly familiar.
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The nucleus disassembles, letting these crucial genetic instructions float free in the cell’s soupy interior.
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Facing no one but the goalkeeper, Moshobane sailed an uncontested shot from 18 yards over the top of the net.
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The ship was sailing an Alaska and Canada voyage round-trip from San Francisco, according to CruiseMapper.
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Within seconds, cheers echo across the mountain valley as a vehicle soars through the sky before plummeting down below.
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The soaring temperatures might become an unexpected storyline in the tale of Swift and Kelce’s wedding weekend.
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“Glide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glide. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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